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hk
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Your comment "(the first one)" seems to indicate later "butcher(s) of Amritsar". If you are talking about Indira Gandhi and Operation Bluestar, would you care to clarify how the two events are even comparable? Firing on armed militants seems very different from firing on unarmed civilians.

Just to clarify, I am not trolling. I truly consider Operation Bluestar to be one of the shameful events in the history of modern India. But, it seems to be very different from Jalianwalabagh.

Tell that to the 3,000 or so civilians who died in a nominal effort to arrest 40 militants. Or explain why an attack that had been planned for so long (they built a mockup) had to take place on a major festival day, and not a day later when the crowds would have dispersed. Or why human rights reports indicate that many of those inside were not allowed out at the start of the attack.

Dear Amardeep, Thanks for your response.I have been reading your blog for a month or so and really enjoy your measured tone and well thoughtout arguments. Keep it on! Dear Anonymous, This is not thought police and no one's jumping down his throat. The reason I asked Amardeep for a clarification is that he rarely makes allusions (or statements) without meaning them and (as he says) the two events are not directly comaprable. So, I just wanted to know his thought process about the same.

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Amardeep Singh, Associate Professor of English at Lehigh UniversityOn Twitter

My book, Diaspora Vérité: The Films of Mira Nair, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, is now available on Amazon.

I have been working on several digital projects in Scalar. All are in progress as of January 2019.
One is digital archive I am calling "The Kiplings and India." Working with a team of graduate research assistants, we have been building the site in Scalar here. Feedback welcome; it's a work in progress.

I have also been working on a Digital Collection called "Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)" This project began as a collaborative class project called "Harlem Echoes," a digital edition of Claude McKay's "Harlem Shadows." The new version of the project is much-expanded, including McKay's early Jamaican poetry as well as his uncollected political poetry from magazines like The Liberator and Workers Dreadnought.

I also put together a digital edition of Jean Toomer's Cane, taking advantage of the fact that that work is now in the public domain. That project can be found here.